I'm at MDAnderson right now. Flew in yesterday morning for scans and met with Dr. Tawbi this morning. As far as MDAnderson and getting to and from the airport I had no problems. To be honest I couldn't tell anything had happened here from my transit from the airport. I guess there's still a lot of problems on the west side of the city. Everything seems pretty smooth at MDAnderson except for the Infusion Therapy department. I waited 2.5 hours to get a port accessed and a lady next to me waited 4 hours. Not sure if that was Harvey related or not. The port access service is always bad but not that bad.
Scans went well. Still stable with one tumor slightly smaller. I'm 9 months out from my CAR-T therapy and 6 months from my last Ipi infusion and seem to still be responding. Dr. Tawbi is extremely pleased. Says he will be even more optimistic at the one year mark if things are good and extremely optimistic at the 2 year mark which really made me feel smart because that's exactly what I told my wife before he walked into the room.
I wanted to share this trial with the board.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03131908?term=%22melanoma%22+%22MDanderson%22&recrs=a&cntry1=NA%3AUS&state1=NA%3AUS%3ATX&rank=3
Dr. Tawbi and his colleagues seem to be very optimistic about this trial at MDAnderson. If someone has progressed on PD-1 this would be one I would consider.
Brian
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